Fact #179395
When:
Short story:
The Christian Science Board of Directors writes to Mary Baker Eddy (founder of Christian Science) stating, "We would like to hear the words of your beautiful poems, The Mother's Evening Prayer and The Communion Hymn sung in our Church again and we think many of our congregation would appreciate the privilege." Prior to this, Eddy's hymns had stopped being sung because, in Eddy's words, "the music set to them offended certain members of the church."